Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s testimony in front of the Senate’s judicial committee wrapped up yesterday. Democrats plan a final Senate vote to confirm Sotomayor in early August. The Takeaway’s Todd Zwillich, our Washington correspondent, has been covering (and tweeting) every moment of the confirmation hearings for the nation’s first Hispanic Justice for the U.S. Supreme Court; he joins us with the week’s highlights.
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